Transnational Voices in Academia
University of Massachusetts Boston
How they used Delve
Two transnational doctoral students at the University of Massachusetts Boston used Delve, alongside Zoom and Otter.ai, to process and code the narrative data from three recorded dialogues in a duoethnography about their identities and positionalities as language educators of color.
“Among these meetings, three 2-hour-long discussions were audio recorded and transcribed using new information and composition technologies (e.g., email, Zoom, Google Docs, Otter.ai, Delve Tool) to process, clean, and code narrative data.”
- Field
- Language teacher education / international and transnational doctoral students
- Data
- Weekly formal and informal conversations and reflective journals between two transnational doctoral students, August 2021 to May 2022, of which three two-hour dialogues were audio recorded and transcribed
- Approach
- Duoethnography with a grounded-theory coding framework (Saldana; Charmaz): inductive open or initial codes over multiple iterations combined into categories, then deductive focused and selective codes applied against Secules' six dimensions of positionality
- Data types
- Interviews
Abstract
In this paper, two transnational doctoral students and language educators of color engage in a reflexive dialogic conversation focusing on intersectional aspects of their identities and positionalities. Utilizing duoethnography research methodology, they explored their academic and professional journeys in post-secondary education both in their home countries and in an Anglophone context. A discussion on the negotiation of their positionalities in their immediate academic, professional, and sociocultural contexts is provided. We argue that unveiling one’s positionality requires a prolonged reflexive engagement that assists in establishing quality in qualitative research as well as exploring fluidity in positionality. We close with implications and invitations to use duoethnography as a path to self-exploration, solidarity, and allyship.
Citation
Nasiba Norova, Juan David Gutiérrez Rodríguez (2024). Transnational Voices in Academia. Journal of International Students. https://doi.org/10.32674/jis.v14i3.6244